Acknowledgments
Assistance in the preparation of this work has been received from many individuals, who, through interviews, correspondence and privately-owned records, have furnished the part of it not to be found in libraries. Generous and prolonged cooperation in the use of material preserved by the public has been given by Miss Nellie B. Pipes and Miss Irene Upson of the Oregon Historical Society; Miss Harriet C. Long and Miss Mirpah G. Blair of the Oregon State Library; Mr. M. H. Douglass of the University of Oregon Library; and Mr. Ronald H. Beattie of the University of California who examined books and manuscripts and followed up literary clues in the Bancroft Library.
Information on particular localities or writers has been supplied by Mrs. Gertrude Ingalls, sister of Frederic Homer Balch, Hood River; Mrs. George H. Lee, daughter of Belle W. Cooke, Portland; Mrs. Grace McCormac French of Carlton; Mr. Merle R. Chessman of Astoria; Mr. Ralph R. Cronise of Albany; Mr. Harry Crain of Salem; Mr. Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg; Professor Edwin T. Reed of Corvallis; Professor Alfred L. Lomax and Professor George S. Turnbull of Eugene; Miss Margaret Ewing, Mrs. Margaret M. Sharp, Mr. Earl Marshall, Mr. Stewart H. Holbrook, Mr. Frederick W. Skiff, Mr. Wallace S. Wharton and Mr. Burt Brown Barker of Portland; and Dr. H. G. Merriam, editor of the Frontier and Midland. The search for early Oregon songs was carried on with the aid of Mrs. Esther S. Townsend, Mr.
